Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Bonnett (1997)

Answer 1

• Race studies investigate the activities and lives of marginalised communities
• interest in “whiteness” and how racial issues effect all ethnic groups
• ongoing, gaps to be filled

Question 2

Panelli (2004) R

Answer 2

“Race is differences based on physical characteristics” p250

Question 3

Panelli (2004) E

Answer 3

“Shared ancestry, culture, traditions, beliefs and behaviour” p243-4

Question 4

Brahinsky (2011)

Answer 4

• Race is a socio-political construction with changing definitions due to urban development processes
• In understanding cities, there are always racial connotations
• Spatial politics: Housing, industrial re-use and urban finance have define urban racial dynamics
• New migrations and displacements

Question 5

Law (2002)

Answer 5

• Spaces can be contested between races/ethnicities
  > CS: Hong Kong
  
  • Filipino domestic workers use space for protests regarding rights/pay - third space
  • Gatherings on sunday, their only day off

Question 6

Peach (1996)

Answer 6

“Lower degree of segregation if economic factors alone controlled distribution” p231
- Cultural selection - class, enthinicity play a role, not just economic power, also tastes and ancestry/behaviours

Question 7

May et al (2007)

Answer 7

• Development of new migrant division of labour in London

- Filling jobs for nationals, residents, who do not want to be engaged with the labour market

Question 8

Peach (2009)

Answer 8

• Claiming that ghettos have a presence, merely manufactured ghettos > Social construct?
• Calls for index of measurement of segregation as it may not be increasing as suggests - London
• Threshold criteria for a ghetto - 40% pakistani in UK, however ghettos in USA, Chicago, are 90-100% Afro-americans

Question 9

Phillips (2007)

Answer 9

• levels of segregation are used as an indicator for migrant integration
• There are gaps in the data and understandings of segregation
• Our interpretation my be skewed by data

Question 10

Vertovkc (2007)

Answer 10

• The UK exhibits “Super Diversity” a massive variety of ethnicities.
• Large numbers of ethnic backgrounds
• originally former colonies

Question 11

Willis (2009)

Answer 11

• Conflict can occur between groups when attempting to occupy a beneficial space ———–>difficulties in marginalised people
• Allows for exclusion to take place - barriers to entry